Cracked, Crazed, and Crusted

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Is there ever anything as beautiful as nature?  Not if the above images are to be believed.  Vintage doors, metal objects, brick, stucco, trees and other mediums aged to perfection by nature.  Enjoy similar images on your own nature walks.  Or enjoy the very contemporary looks to the very old images above.

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It All Begins With Art

Designing a Room Around Art

This is a lovely piece of art available from Mytwodesigners.com 

When you start the design process with an empty room, start with a piece of art that feels right for you.  Using the art to develop your color theme is a great way to begin to fill the room with furniture and accessories you love. I use a site called Olioboard, www.olioboard.com to prepare my mood boards then arrange them into a 2D or 3D looking room.  It really helps clients visualize their space.olioboard.com

Using this piece of art as the foundation for colors, this is how the Living Room would progress:

Gold club chair Zoe laylagrace.com, oblong metal table Piazza Bar interiordesign.net,  grey sofa Lee Jofa. Not available wire chair, white dresser, cocktail table

Sconce lumen.com $170.95, small art onekingslane.com, pair hombre vases moderndomicile.net $72.50, pair tall vases Ikea.com, small candle lamp onekingslane.com, oval silver lamp Sunny Isles, lumens.com, ginger jar shade only drum shadesoflight.com $129, pillows from left Monticita laylagrace.com $100, grey Greek Key shopgreife.com, stripe look Fench Frou Designersguild.com $121.95, oblong pillow Dwell Studio deconstructed Zincdoor.com $95, not available rug, drape, 6 light pendant

After the foundation pieces are selected, we would then move to select the finishing touches.  We add to the color scheme to bring in some of the lighter and darker shades of the yellows and greys.

This new Living Room now is completed and this is the final look, IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE ART.